Hiding in the grass this afternoon was....
This lovely silver-ground carpet, Xanthorhoe montanata. They can be readily disturbed during the day, but primarily fly at night. The larval foodplant is a variety of low growing herbaceous plants including the bedstraws, Galium spp.
The cinnabar moth, Tyria jacobaeae. Their larvae are the yellow and black striped caterpillars that you see feeding on ragwort, Senecio jacobaea.
And finally, this stunning emperor dragonfly, or Anax imperator, my first this year. They are the largest dragonfly occuring at Langford.